Reply #6: ...showy acts of charity.

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I'm glad you mentioned that part. I've volunteered for a lot of different charities and one that was one thing that always bothered me. In order to get people of modest means to financially support a cause, you just had to hope that they felt it was a worthy cause and that they had the extra money to spare. With those there, they would most often give whatever they could.

However, when you wanted to get donations from the very wealthy, you had to buy them things, trinkets like little pens, day planners, decorative stuff, etc. Then you had to make sure that you put out their name somewhere publicly so others knew they donated. And lastly, you had to have some kind of social event, a ball or fancy dinner, and give these large donors awards for their financial help.

Funny thing was that in the end, those of modest means almost always gave a greater percentage of what they had, in time as well as money, than the wealthy. The wealthy, for the most part, seemed to give for the public recognition, and I hated the fact that we had to spend money on them to get them to donate. It was deemed "acceptable', but to me it was immoral.